Year’s worth of harassment leads to stalking arrest warrant

After moving several times in the last year to get away, a woman told police her ex-boyfriend’s stalking is “greatly impacting my mental health.”

Following a recent break-in attempt in Lawton and continued attempts at contact despite a protective order, he’s now wanted by police.

The Comanche County District Court issued a felony arrest warrant Wednesday for Eric Edgington, 31, of Lawton, for a count of stalking, records indicate.

Lawton Police Sgt. Kevin Poiret stated he was called shortly after 1 a.m. April 11 to the woman’s home after, she said, Edgington had tried to break in. She said the baseball bat she keeps on top of the window fell and she saw him attempt to climb in her window, the warrant affidavit states. He then tried to push in another window, knocking over a bookshelf before leaving.

The woman spoke with Detective Sedona Warren who stated she told of a series of events that made her physically emotional. The woman said she lived in Wichita Falls, Texas, in April 2023 and moved to Ardmore in July 2023 to hide from him but Edgington found her, the affidavit states. She moved back to Wichita Falls, Texas, the next month but, she said, he found her again. After moving to Iowa Park, Texas, in December 2023, he, again found her so, she said, she moved to Lawton on Jan. 1. Two weeks after moving to Lawton, she said, Edgington again found her.

She said over the past year she’d changed her phone number three times but Edgington keeps getting it without her consent, Warren stated. She said he’s shown up everywhere she’s moved and he’s been arrested in Texas for breaking into a home where she was visiting a friend, according to the affidavit. She said she received a protective order against him but he’s moved to a home just south of hers, Warren stated.

Edgington is accused of sending text and voice messages to the woman where he used racial hate speech and vulgar language and has threatened to report her to the Department of Human Services to attempt to get her children taken into custody, the affidavit states. The woman wrote the detective in an email she is “terrified of speaking out about the situation because it’s like a mess, it’s a big mess and I feel like it’s gotten everywhere and it’s greatly impacting my mental health,” Warren stated.

Over the course of the investigation since April 11, the woman has had to change her phone number again due to Edgington contacting her, according to the affidavit. The detective stated she served him with a protective order on April 23.

Edgington has prior felony convictions in the Superior Court of California: October 2018, criminal threats which will result in death or great bodily injury; and September 2020, vandalism, records indicate.